proprietorship
IPA: prʌprˈaɪʌtɝʃɪp
noun
- The state of being a proprietor; ownership.
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Examples of "proprietorship" in Sentences
- As for the sign's affirmation of Mr. Bangs proprietorship, that is considered the cream of the joke.
- And no market has a more developed sense of entitled proprietorship over their purchases than video-game nerds.
- He will sit on the ground floor, with his own kind, feeling as it were a kind of proprietorship in the playhouse.
- You don't need to file paperwork to establish a sole proprietorship, which is a business that's owned by one person or a husband-and-wife team.
- He had unpacked the portmanteau long ago; and his elder children now played regularly about the yard, and everybody knew the baby, and claimed a kind of proprietorship in her.
- Authority became him, which is to say, as Penn puts it, He was the producer, so he had a kind of proprietorship over it, where I think he felt that he had to set a good example, too.
- Thus when she muses that "To be mistress of Pemberley might be something," Elizabeth evokes a kind of proprietorship at once economic and sexual, a proprietorship contingent upon her own reproductive faculties.
- They applauded him, and it was plain that they regretted him, the tried friend, the man there was never any doubt about, whose convictions they had repeated, and whose speeches in Parliament they had read with a kind of proprietorship for so long.
- Having viewed Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory documentary episode dealing with the Sept. 11 attacks, I would like to call your attention to a detail that the research team may have overlooked, namely the proprietorship of Hangar 17, where the only known 9/11 evidence still in existence is locked away from public scrutiny.
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